Human Nature Quotes

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

The Savior of the whole world chose twelve disciples, and even one of that small number, selected by superhuman wisdom, turned out a traitor and a devil.

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied

The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.

When a person looks at himself, he is likely to misjudge what he finds. He sees only his intentions. Most people have good intentions and hence conclude that whatever they are doing is good. It is difficult for an individual to objectively judge his actions, which may be, and often are, contradictory to his good intentions.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.